English poem
Providential Bounties surveyed and improved. Matthew v. 45
by Philip Doddridge (1773–1832)
Father of Lights, we sing thy Name, Who kindlest up the Lamp of Day ; Wide as he spreads his golden Flame, His Beams thy Pow'r and Love display.
Fountain of Good, from Thee proceed The copious Drops of genial Rain; Which thro' the Hills, and thro' the Meads Revive the Grass, and swell the Grain.
Thro' the wide World thy Bounties spread; Yet Millions of our guilty Race, Tho' by thy daily Bounty fed, Affront thy Law, and spurn thy Grace.
Not so may our forgetful Hearts O'erlook the Tokens of thy Care; But what thy lib'ral Hand imparts Still own in Praise, still ask in Pray'r.
So shall our Suns more grateful shine, And Show'rs in sweeter Drops shall fall, When all our Hearts and Lives are Thine, And Thou, our GOD, enjoy'd in all.
Jesus, our brighter Sun, arise; In plenteous Show'rs thy Spirit send; Earth then shall grow a Paradise, And in the heav'nly Eden end.
More by Philip Doddridge
- Praising GOD through the whole of our Existence. Psalm cxlvi. 2
- Preparing to meet GOD. Amos iv. 12, 13
- Pressing on in the Christian Race. Phil. iii. 12-14
- Prisoners delivered from the Pit by the Blood of the Covenant. Zech. ix. 11
- Providing Bags, that wax not old, &c. Luke xii. 33
- Quietness under Affliction a proper Acknowledgment of GOD. Psalm xlvi. 10
- Rebels against CHRIST executed. Luke xix. 27
- Rebels against the supreme Sovereign admonished. Psalm lxvi. 7